It's Christmas Eve and here I am, in the middle of a Waitrose car park in stockbroker belt Surrey, having just picked up a few provisions ahead of a bit of a pilgrimage to see the in-laws just north of Newcastle. Yet all I can think of is The Arsenal. Yesterday Arsène gave unto us [...]
The dust may still be settling on Monday night's brilliant victory, but it's good to hear that players like Big Per aren't getting too carried away. He was interviewed after the game and rolled out the footballing cliché of taking it 'game-by-game' and just focusing on the next match, rather than any title talk. Good. [...]
Okay, so here's the thing: I'm gonna level with ya. The first part of today's blog is written in a slightly inebriated haze and post-match big game glow. It's delivered to you because I think we saw a mature Arsenal team that has delivered a statement to the rest of the league that guess what, [...]
In this craziest of crazy seasons, where everybody can beat everyone (including Watford smashing the Scousers), consistency will be king. Those teams who can put together a winning run like - gulp - Leicester are doing at the moment, will find themselves within touching distance of the title. Tonight we're up against a title rival [...]
Well, I learned something about my own ability to predict football results yesterday, which was that I really shouldn't bother. After yesterday's blog I had made some assumptions and whilst the only result I categorically predicted was the United one (which I got wrong), I also thought both Spurs and Leicester would drop points, which [...]
Today's an interesting day, because it still feels like we're so far away from Arsenal's game, yet it's a weekend in football in which we'll all be paying a lot of attention. Leicester travel to Everton in a game in which you have to wonder whether they will finally come unstuck. Much like how we [...]
Well, well, well, my how the 'mighty' mighty have fallen so quick, so fast and so hard, eh? I wonder if, at the end of season party when all of the back-slapping and self-congratulating had finished, the chortle from the speech about how there is a team who only play in calendar years (the jibe [...]
It's all very quiet at the moment. Perhaps you would expect this though, given the fact we play on Monday, which is why we see only the occasional titbit of information from the official site. Today's informational advent calendar chocolate equivalent is Jack Wilshere for me (I say 'for me' because it was probably released [...]
Doesn't Petr Cech just sound like one of the nicest people in football. Never a bad word to say about anybody and, having worked under Jose Mourinho twice, he would have plenty of reason to spill the odd bit of bile, in the mould of his one-time manager. But no, he's just a happy chap, [...]
This season is crazier than Will Ferrell, hepped up on goofballs, riding a unicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. Everything is weird and no more so can it be signified than the game I watched yesterday in which the current Champions lumbered their way around the pitch against a team who were relegation [...]